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Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'

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623 points magicalhippo | 1 comments | 07 Jan 25 04:14 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mrtksn ◴[07 Jan 25 06:18 UTC] No.42619841[source]▶
Okay, so this is not a peripheral that you connect to your computer to run specialized tasks, this is a full computer running Linux.

It's a garden hermit. Imagine a future where everyone has one of those(not exactly this version but some future version), it lives with you it learns with you and unlike the cloud based SaaS AI you can teach it things immediately and diverge from the average to your advantage.

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noduerme ◴[07 Jan 25 06:21 UTC] No.42619852[source]▶
"garden hermit" is a very interesting and evocative phrase. Where is that from?
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mrtksn ◴[07 Jan 25 06:24 UTC] No.42619867[source]▶
It's a real thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_hermit

In the past, in Europe, some wealthy people used to look after of a scholar living on their premises so they can ask them questions etc.

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1. rsynnott ◴[07 Jan 25 15:17 UTC] No.42623231[source]▶
> The one at Painshill, hired by The Hon. Charles Hamilton for a seven-year term under strict conditions, lasted three weeks until he was sacked after being discovered in a local pub

I mean, fair. Very bad hermit-ing.

(Terry Pratchett has a fun parody of this in one of the Discworld books; the garden hermit gets two weeks' holidays a year, which he spends in a large city.)